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Is this cpu and motherboard worth an upgrade? 

 

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CPU: Intel Core i5-3570 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Motherboard: Foxconn H61MD Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Storage: Mushkin Reactor 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Storage: Western Digital Blue 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Power Supply: Raidmax 530W Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Other: hp lga1155 stock cooler (Purchased)
Total: $0.00
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I've been renovating a HP prebuilt, and the only thing from that tower that remains is the motherboard, cpu, and cpu cooler. Is it worth it to buy a new cpu(like a 4690k or a 4790k)? And what motherboard would be good?
 
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Nah, not at all. Stick to your current setup a little longer.

 

If anything, upgrade the GPU. Hell, even a monitor / mouse / keyboard / headset upgrade would be better. But right now, you don't seem to benefit from a CPU upgrade.

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Is this cpu and motherboard worth an upgrade? 

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/K9kHXL
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/K9kHXL/by_merchant/
 
CPU: Intel Core i5-3570 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Motherboard: Foxconn H61MD Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Storage: Mushkin Reactor 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Storage: Western Digital Blue 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Power Supply: Raidmax 530W Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Other: hp lga1155 stock cooler (Purchased)
Total: $0.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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I've been renovating a HP prebuilt, and the only thing from that tower that remains is the motherboard, cpu, and cpu cooler. Is it worth it to buy a new cpu(like a 4690k or a 4790k)? And what motherboard would be good?
 
Thanks
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No, the 3570 is still a very capable CPU

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4790k? yes.

 

4690k? yes, but nothing much. you get to oc this cpu, thus you gain extra performance.

 

But when gaming you won't notice any big differences b/w those CPUs.

 

If you wanna buy a 4690k, you've to buy a new motherboard. Like a Z97.

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Is this cpu and motherboard worth an upgrade? 

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/K9kHXL
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/K9kHXL/by_merchant/
 
CPU: Intel Core i5-3570 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Motherboard: Foxconn H61MD Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Storage: Mushkin Reactor 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Storage: Western Digital Blue 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Power Supply: Raidmax 530W Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Other: hp lga1155 stock cooler (Purchased)
Total: $0.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-29 12:05 EST-0500
 
I've been renovating a HP prebuilt, and the only thing from that tower that remains is the motherboard, cpu, and cpu cooler. Is it worth it to buy a new cpu(like a 4690k or a 4790k)? And what motherboard would be good?
 
Thanks

 

Nah, not at all. Stick to your current setup a little longer.

 

If anything, upgrade the GPU. Hell, even a monitor / mouse / keyboard / headset upgrade would be better. But right now, you don't seem to benefit from a CPU upgrade.

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Is this cpu and motherboard worth an upgrade? 

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/K9kHXL

Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/K9kHXL/by_merchant/

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (Purchased For $0.00) 

Motherboard: Foxconn H61MD Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (Purchased For $0.00) 

Storage: Mushkin Reactor 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (Purchased For $0.00) 

Storage: Western Digital Blue 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (Purchased For $0.00) 

Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card  (Purchased For $0.00) 

Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case  (Purchased For $0.00) 

Power Supply: Raidmax 530W Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (Purchased For $0.00) 

Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer  (Purchased For $0.00) 

Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  (Purchased For $0.00) 

Other: hp lga1155 stock cooler (Purchased)

Total: $0.00

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-29 12:05 EST-0500

 

I've been renovating a HP prebuilt, and the only thing from that tower that remains is the motherboard, cpu, and cpu cooler. Is it worth it to buy a new cpu(like a 4690k or a 4790k)? And what motherboard would be good?

 

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It depends on what you would be using this rig for. If you're going to do some gaming then yes you should uograde
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4790k? yes.

 

4690k? yes, but nothing much. you get to oc this cpu, thus you gain extra performance.

 

But when gaming you won't notice any big differences b/w those CPUs.

 

If you wanna buy a 4690k, you've to buy a new motherboard. Like a Z97.

I know it's your opinion, but technically speaking he won't see any difference upgrading from a 3570 to a 4690k because it's a 1 generation difference..

I didn't notice a huge difference going from the 3570k @ 4.0 to a 6700k @ 4.5 gaming wise

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I wouldn't upgrade the cpu yet. Wait for the next gen Intel at least.

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It depends on what you would be using this rig for. If you're going to do some gaming then yes you should uograde

He won't notice a difference in gaming with different CPUs, if he upgrades his GPU he will.

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I know it's your opinion, but technically speaking he won't see any difference upgrading from a 3570 to a 4690k because it's a 1 generation difference..

I didn't notice a huge difference going from the 3570k @ 4.0 to a 6700k @ 4.5 gaming wise

Gaming, even a 2500k can handle like a boss. :)

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Gaming, even a 2500k can handle like a boss. :)

That's my point, not a huge performance boost going from 3570 to 4690

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He won't notice a difference in gaming with different CPUs, if he upgrades his GPU he will.

I know it won't be much if a difference but there is gonna be a difference in all other tasks and the most important point this cpu is Overclockable. And yeah he should rather upgrade his gpu while being careful about bottlenecks.
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I know it won't be much if a difference but there is gonna be a difference in all other tasks and the most important point this cpu is Overclockable. And yeah he should rather upgrade his gpu while being careful about bottlenecks.

The 3570 won't bottleneck any GPU out there at the moment, I know because I used to own one my self

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The 3570 won't bottleneck any GPU out there at the moment, I know because I used to own one my self

a 980ti maybe
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a 980ti maybe

Nope

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I know it's your opinion, but technically speaking he won't see any difference upgrading from a 3570 to a 4690k because it's a 1 generation difference..

I didn't notice a huge difference going from the 3570k @ 4.0 to a 6700k @ 4.5 gaming wise

1 Gen? 3570, 4670, 4690????? 2 Gen

 

 

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Nope

Actually... It will. Wouldn't go above a 980 with the 3570.

 

 

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1 Gen? 3570, 4670, 4690????? 2 Gen

I'm talking about the difference

The 3570 is a 3rd generation Ivy Bridge CPU while the 4690 is a 4th generation haswel CPU

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Actually... It will. Wouldn't go above a 980 with the 3570.

I had a 980 Ti in my system, it's my friends but I've used it for 2 weeks, it didn't show any type of bottlenecking at all

Played gta v, Skyrim with shit ton of mods and plenty of other AAA games

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I had a 980 Ti in my system, it's my friends but I've used it for 2 weeks, it didn't show any type of bottlenecking at all

Played gta v, Skyrim with shit ton of mods and plenty of other AAA games

At 1080p, it will. Not by like 30% maybe 10-15%, At 1440p, 4k, it won't.

 

 

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At 1080p, it will. Not by like 30% maybe 10-15%, At 1440p, 4k, it won't.

And that's why Super Sampling exists...... TYVM Maxwell Architecture.

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